[Chris Harlan]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “Hunter,

This is good info – I have not read of any other experiences using FCPX for long form projects.

I’d suggest, once you’re through the gauntlet, putting together a post of your experiences in the forum if you have the time. I would certainly be interested in hearing about them, and I’m sure there would be others.

Many thanks.

Franz.
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Hunter, I agree with Franz. I’d be very interested in a full right-up when you get there.

[Chris Harlan]

[Oliver Peters] “A rock solid, high-capaciity, cheap archiving solution that’s as easy as hard drives and as robust as blu-ray-rom. I guess that violates the triad, but one can hope.”

Hey, I’ll get on that one too. The Japanese earthquake has made me think a lot about long-term storage and it would be nice to see some developments and agreements in this area that could lead to something more standardized. Also, I’d like to see some growth in methods of 2k/4k archiving.

[Chris Harlan]

[Steve Connor] “”PRE READ forever!!!!!””

Pre read was hip!

[Chris Harlan]

[T. Payton] “Let us not be Luddites.”

Pretty condescending stuff, there, dude. Let me offer you another view of what the future of FCX might have to offer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-spuGvsAU

Just replace “Aguirre” with “Apple Pro Apps Division.”

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[Chris Harlan]

[Gary Huff] “[T. Payton] “Apple was truly aiming where the puck will be with FCP X, and many of us dislike where the puck is going to be. Like Luddiites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite) we believe this new technology was a death sentence to our much loved craft. Some of us even lashed out, seeking some type of revenge upon the very ones proposing this new technology.”

Okay, I get it: you love Apple and probably believe that this mega-billion dollar corporation can do no wrong.

In the real world, just because something is new and shiny, it doesn’t automatically make it the future.
“

I DO get a little tired of this naive, extremely patronizing notion that if you don’t embrace FCX with a 3rd degree tent pole, there must be something wrong with you–that you are some fuddy, unwilling to embrace the new, and that you stand there like MR D.B. Gumby, shouting “My Brain Hurts!” It is just such a shallow POV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIlKiRPSNGA

[Chris Harlan]

[Walter Soyka] “I think Avid showed a browser-based cloud editing solution at NAB in 2010, though.”

Yeah, I saw it demoed at the 2010 SMPTE tech conference. It was pretty cool.

[Chris Harlan]

[Jim Giberti] “[Simon Ubsdell] “I don’t imagine that many people need to round-trip with AAF but for those who do it’s worth being aware of this issue.”

Yeah, this hardly a make or break PP issue.
“

Its hard for me to get worked up about this. I started with NLE’s back when they were highly specialized, and there weren’t enough users to do any kind of wide Beta testing. So, I just expect–rightly or wrongly–that there will be some bugs. And my mentality is generally to work around them. The important thing for me has always been the acknowledgment of issues and open communication about work-arounds and timetables for fixes.

[Chris Harlan]

[Steve Connor] “Good grief, it was a joke!
“

And, a good one.

[Chris Harlan]

[Lance Bachelder] “The new timeline rules! Love everything about this rev so far. If PPro is anything like this it could do really well.
“

I have to say I am looking forward to this release.

[Chris Harlan]

[Jim Giberti] “[Walter Soyka] “I love clip connections. I think that’s a great idea, and I think an NLE should be able to track the relationships between clips when an editor asks it to. Given clip connections, I think a form of collision avoidance makes sense. It’s the auto-collapsing timeline, object models and relative time that give me the heebie jeebies.”

Walter, I think this is a very succinct and accurate explanation why this paradigm fails for so many professionals.

The reason that Apple decided to take a good idea for some editors, some of the time and turn it into a new overarching concept in editing is baffling.
“

Jim, I agree. I also agree with Walter that part one of his assessment would make for some amazing editing if it weren’t subjugated by part Two.